Your Zone

Originally Posted by JRutledge

If I use this season as a gauge, I was on the first game of the season that I worked the plate.

Honestly, I think the job we do is mostly subjected to the pitchers we have on the bump. I really think we are at their mercy more what the pitchers do as compared to how good we are behind the plate. If you have a pitcher that is all over the place it is really hard to look good at all.

In my case this year some of my early plate games were all college games and calling the game was very easy. The pitchers understood what they wanted to do and executed.

Peace

My first 6 games were all house league due to travel, 13-14. The games were all high scoring, lot of walks and errors, just plain sloppy. The starting pitchers for the most part were pretty decent, but went downhill rapidly from there, so it was hard to get in the groove and stay there. If you get some good crisp play, it's a lot easier.